God's Vision and Sweet Treats

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Together, we explore the stories of men and women who love God turn their passion kingdom pursuits now at Abbott's frozen custard and clam as a reviewer in Raleigh today here in Charlotte, you may be in Richmond Virginia in your thinking. How can I get here, Robbie. I'm telling you 6312 Clement Pointe Dr., you've put in your GPS and you will be grateful when you taste the turtle it's chocolate it's peanut this chocolate is frozen solid. Mother told me about some of their on the shores of Lake Ontario.

The original Abbott's from 1902 right now as we speak. There lying all around the lake and here, not unlike any other. Abbott's in the entire world we have the blue's famous bottled water and were so blessed really actually do have blockage with this and and Brock little blue you know it's it's kind of fun to be here for this event. Well Robbie, I really don't want to talk right now because I want this Abbott's frozen custard, I just keep eating on his right stated this is great stuff that's not fair.

That's is definitely not God is turtle in the mud and Brock's got some and now my next guest. Not just any any corn with us today we have Ricky corn so you can imagine what might be coming. If you know me well. Shortly but you know this man.

Here is kind of like I sat down next to him on a airplane on my way to Jamaica and he looks over at me and you can imagine look at Rick you there okay this man here looks over at your knees and he gets in your time. It didn't have a smile on his face and he looks at me to give Robbie I've seen some things he said this is real, live, and I began to hear stories like I've never heard of Montara life. So you are going to get your fill of corn today. It's going to be a cornucopia of stuff that's just unbelievable but that's besides the ice cream enough. Besides, you know what God is taking the passion of people like Brock Agee and blue blue bottle water and it's amazing what you guys know what God is done through your ministry there with the blue you have Robbie and his great first of all just want to edify brown wall that is made all the possible and you know Brad had texted me one day and said Brock were bringing Abbott's to Clemens. Would it be possible for us to take the Bluewater input and Abbott's label on the bottle and it's been so cool to be meeting with him at other places throughout Clemens why he's put this vision together and now we're like literally kids have an ice cream party out here with wonderful frozen custard, but is so awesome to see local men of God that are in business and seeing things happen to me a few weeks ago, look at this place.

I notice the shop is also in a few weeks ago you come about. Everybody's working hard like busy bees putting this all together. So what is blessed to be a part of Abbott's and provided bottled water for them so if you happen to be blessed be the person that discovered Andy Griffith was a great storyteller right so as I'm listening to these this cornucopia of stories on this trip to Jamaica I said and I have got to get this man on the radio 90s over risk is always just been discovered that I promised that I would give them a great introduction like you know he walks he talks he crawled on his belly like a reptile but go ahead. Mr. corn is actually with the tabernacle or praise men's group and I'll let you pronounce the city or from our North Carolina.

I couldn't say that right I probably say Arden Arden Morneau Ricky, this is real life. Well yes it is. I meant no Robbie on the plane like he said going to do Jamaica and everything sort of seem to come out under the Lord work and doing different things for me him alive and I am a little nervous, but it is it's going to be good. It's good be great working working working to pull it out of this Capricorn like you wouldn't believe in his comments are speaking of corn you thinking of who has ears to hear, living here corner, laughingstock, really not all that husky is really more of a Col.

Most of all I'm sure you agree that he is outstanding in his field: I can tell all the shenanigans actually have a Bible riddle and I have one that I really am excited about sharing with you so you can come in with an answer to this riddle.

I'm told you're going to get a free scoop of world-famous from 1902 family recipe of Abbott's frozen custard. Here's riddle hello in the Bible had dreams of husky corn hello in the Bible had dreams of husky corn if you know the answer that you just gotta drive out here to Clemens right behind Addario's income to Abbott for as you can get a free cup of frozen custard, I go there, and you'll see the tent with the truth man and all that stuff you will see Brock Agee and you'll see much corn himself and tell us who in the Bible dreamt of husky corn and I don't think it was written that way. Originally in the in the Hebrew but it was husky corn and Keith.

We gotta still hear the music as I got more sublime play the music for the for the abnormal winning prize music. If you come out here today. I have tickets that I have your choice of got tickets to the Wake Forest football game right coming up so all you do is mention corn and all you and you get in it.

But if you answer the husky corn coming, not joke, but Bible riddle.

Abbott's frozen custard, but we got to talk a little bit about water here since we have Brock Agee here and a lot of people wanted what is the secret to the blue man I could talk about water all day long. I was just watching last night on if you seen this movie six below, but I didn't know this have been in the water business forever in you cannot eat snow it actually will dehydrate you.

If you're out cold and I got headshaking yes I Robbie I don't know that I'm want to talk about water.

I didn't even know this because I was out stranded eight days on the mountain. I would be is not allow that you, but this secret blue is the secret to everything.

It's called God our father every day. We have just replicated what the good Lord does with the evaporation condensation cycle with the hydrological cycle so it will blue instead of altering the water we use heat just like this guy does with the sun every morning, the sun pops up and that whole hydrological cycle starts and if you could catch water out of the clouds. Robbie, if you think about that and you would catch ultrapure water hydrogen and oxygen and Stu Epperson said this and I really cannot quote you stated, but you know we're the only people to give the pure water guarantee because we steam distilled water heated up over 500 trees were also doing UV and all the sign to fix the fiddler people said hi but is illogical you dad, but guys it's it's it's really cool when we got a local native to Clemens. Whereat here today Jerry Smith that founded the blue bottle water and that's the secret. We use heat instead of filters to make ultrapure water and it takes off. You know Truth Network rights do we have the blue pure water right here in my presence. As inclement dreamer blessed today to be here live at Abbott's frozen custard their grand opening that's been happening since 1030 this morning we are at 6312. You might want to put this in your GPS. If you're in Raleigh and I was going to be fine. 6312 Clemens Pointe Dr., Clemens, NC 27012 with if you're used to driving around Clemens if you look right behind Addario's you can see the true Tantalus truth talk truck. It's right next to planet fitness not hard to see but we're more than blessed right now because we have the man himself. We have brown wall with this owner of Abbott's but you been so busy it's been hard to get on the radio greatest point of thanking us for being here think the opportunity to be on the on radio with you and you got to do the golden ticket yes great and we had no what to expect. We had my first customer show up yesterday at 915 was one they were doing and they showed up. They camped out last night and all the rain and storm and all that they received golden ticket and then we commit a drawing for anyone in line at 9 o'clock and then those they actually got going ticket as well. When drawing so into going ticket winners.

I was his custard for years over excited us get to see them as well as any all the customers for the next year and then this is a big deal you got the big shots from Abbott's out of Rochester by the coming company and you know we were blessed be part of a great company is got a family focus on so that's what were excited about an exit will be here here around 12 o'clock, 1230 today so excited about sharing that our family with their family night and there immediately. It's been a yes Mr. is coming for her grandfather was part of the coming and started back in 1900's and so there still part of the company and yes, it's great to be part of that part of summative company that focuses that much on family and the values that are there and then for you. You know, not a Krispy Kreme where you know the secret recipe led to this unbelievable doughnut thing and and so now you got an opportunity to do the same thing with custard very very similar.

I mean it's a secret formula family found formula dates back to 1902's crazy connections to the brand affinity to the brand amount people just came over building and glace at your company and I get to get it. So there's a lawyer following to the brand and the biggest thing is this miles Jamaican people's face and that's what's most exciting for me and also that God give new decision to give back to extent right is right.

So 10% of all our profits will go to special needs ministry Armitage local ministries and that special needs ministry.

Some got put on your heart. It's kind of a unique I really, really cool for somebody worse and special needs. I realized the burden is on the parents of special needs families and you really found a cool way to in 2011 we were added to your competition. Believe it or not, God laid it on my heart that we need to do something for special-needs families. We came back… I learned to see if competition we came back to Weston Seidelman the lives that we got started foundation and so we started wall foundation in 2011 have been ministering to family special-needs now since then and I got Alan now Alan Mayo 80 yes are you doing wrong. I never got to say your name on it or I just think of is Alan. No, I don't usually throw them out, stuff that he we're in Jamaica and we didn't know we are going to teen challenge from Billy Allen but just describe what what your experience level special needs that you never really had before where we first went to the orphanage in Kinston. It was eye-opening. It was there was a lot of stuff that most people would even think that would be in an orphanage is a lot of love being shown there tremendous amount of help needed for the children was a real blessing to be a part of it just for a few hours six or eight hours.

There is unfortunately in Jamaica. They think the special-needs people. Evil spirits of a thrombus. It's not murder to throw them out, and so this Catholic foundation kind of thing picks up these kids and there's literally hundreds of them certainly one of the infant room was really hard to take. With all these babies right now. Yeah, it was is a lot to suggest to be there with the children but it was her again was a blessing to be able to help in and see him smile and laugh and the children just want love, just like anyone else. That's all we really need is love. God's love and that's really cool that you know again in your own way through here through your Abbott's frozen custard, you know you got the group that your being able to support here what you know if this is been your dream for a while and and so what what are you most looking forward to today serving the kids and service customers and that's the biggest thing since Miles and everyone space that's that's what we couldn't wait we said that on Facebook we can't wait service. Great brand is great community and that's what it's about. That's my biggest thing I think is the most exciting thing for me so this because I was coming here your site is a special thing that we can do something that other Abbott's direction with the first application and offered this opportunity and so if you come in. You want to send it with the signature flavors of Abbott's question, we can make that for you. Minnesota is going to going back to the 1800s when you get the subjects in the early 1900s we have that we login you'll see the soda bar on the left.

This would make you a soda out of black raspberry said we can make your black raspberry soda cream soda traditional cream sodas.

Unbelievable. Silent in your case, you know you he is with the men's group there at the tabernacle praise church] yes, and as you look you know is, interestingly, God picked you of all people and to that men's group but which will get more in the Allen story little bit later but I'm curious what you're looking forward to is is you look at that agenda. Over the next few months.

What what you looking forward to what we just had a great back to school bash shot with 13 men showed up to help put everything together as well as the rest of the church, but which we have we have a couple venture start not one is off. It's called the man event. It's at crossroads Assembly of God church in the Asheville will be a part of that will be private.

300 men involved with that is also some other stuff happen with the men's group, but it's always great to be a part of it. You know the Scripture tells us as iron sharpens iron, so one man shop is another sharpen means to help one another to make it better so that's art that's our really striving point is to make each other better. We were never meant meant to be alone as brothers. That's awesome. It is awesome that and we aren't and so we got a chance to spend some time together in Jamaica and yes we have somebody coming up on the T-shirt and I have some for free and I'll get you one. When we going to bring, which is part of what we do. We got tickets to giveaway to the Wake Forest game got tickets to giveaway to the dance game and we got frozen custard. If somebody comes up know that mentions: or what it was. I my Yahoo in the Bible was having dreams of Husky: so you got your whole family. Here Brad that's returning to so talk about that a blessing to see my kids get involved in the business from my oldest daughter, leading the staff training into my youngest daughter running products and and everything is she so excited about that. My son working on the machine and making the custard for everyone. This is an blessing to see my dollars and UNC Charlotte. You came home today to be part of the opening as well so this is great.

That's one of the things I didn't really realize what is going to go into business with the family how rewarding it was going to be to see your kids step in and start being part of all these different flavors and ice creams and chip things that you got stuff. What is your personal I'm interested what what what would Brad Wallace say is his personal favorite of all the different cakes and ice creams and sodas. In like manner, if you're really coming here tonight after everybody's gone, what you can eat what you know you put me on the spot like that. I mean the answer off.

I say yes, I'll take that little bit of everything else. It's all good, all the flavors are really good.

I can't put my hand on one that is preferred. The best one that were run in the day.

That was my first time that I've actually tried it with butter pecan and is pretty good today.

I would say that, gone tomorrow probably say something different you know you know different people in so you know, for Robbie you know I be saying that's the most I've ever read my entire life, you know.

But for Brad when he says that's pretty good. I'm a tell you that that's like Robbie Sam so you take that is high praise understand and and and so it was really cool for me as Alan and Ricky were there in Jamaica is we were what we are actually doing as we had two guys who had graduated from the North Carolina boys Academy and so there they're going through a drug rehabilitation program. These are young boys that are like 15 1617 years old and their dads are taking them to graduating from the program and got to come into their life and freedom.

You know a man and said now their dads are engaging and somewhere sit around the table every morning and Jamaica were only Alan and listen. These men stories in these boys were here in allowing the only one getting wounded.

My dad had a similar story, yet there was was one day that lasted about 2 1/2 hours maybe three hours. We can even eat breakfast that morning where it was 10 man not going around sharing life experiences with volunteers and not a lot of tissues and and being sincere whenever men could do that. So it's always good. Now I just know I thought what I've given you had my dad sitting in that situation in here.

His struggles just a precious moment there is so you know really in a fatherless place like Jamaica fathers right now you want these tickets frozen custard here in Clemens, Robbie Gilmore here in the Truth Network podcast of help make my pillow the company it is today, and now Mike Lindell, who by the way, I've met is a great guy, the inventor and CEO of my pillow wants to get back to our listeners for the first time you can get deep discounts on all my coproducts if you go to my pillow.com right now, and click on the new radio listeners special who never thought that my dream job would be selling my pillows and you're getting tired of these sleeping droughts, but you can get deep discounts on my pillows, mattress toppers, bedsheets, and so much more.

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I've been waiting for this segment just so that you can finally get some sense of what I got it.

Got to enjoy when I was in Jamaica because as I told you there is in front of me as somebody that really is the Andy Griffith of storytelling. I'm telling you that he's seen some things he told me that on the plane but I had no idea so just to give our listening audience will that while they're on their way here today. Enjoy the frozen custard of the turtles and the peanuts in the home all the stuff sodas in the raspberry time.

I know you're on your way so you need to hear a story so Ricky if you could share with our listeners without you know I think is classic corn story of when you decided that you should go sort of parasailing often the building so the set this up. We're on our way up to teen challenge firemen and I was talking about this guy one time used to parasail behind trucks you know you go behind the boat with this guy really got all beat up because he tries it parasail behind a truck and Ricky says that ain't nothing. So I have an 80 years ago you store construction are more in so memo but is this idea was no make his big black plastic prayer. She put a power cord on it's not part of body harness on hooked into backing the D-ring and, but you stretch it out in his own top of a flat roof how how high up hundred foot or so off the ground and so you got this idea because your to stand up there and also to go. I think I go parasail off a building that they went clearly assume like it lasted till I got this plastic like you'd use for landscaping and yeah man, and so the guy who made this parachute did you have a little concerned about his ability to parachute me where you had tried many things before this is to get idea of the wind was blowing, probably 60, 70 miles an Irish Taino kid and I don't know I'm working but ingested air Florida pulling out you know is like a sword like sheep minor drag car around in a circle one way left errata rope down in but anyway they threw it up in there when he threw up in their whole yeah we encountered Nixon only to lay off with a rotten beat me on the deck on the corrugated deck 28gauge 24gauge Dick. It told me a term that magically gives little sad affect what that might sound like it was like you did to offer bad sound anyway you picture the drag car parachute right in this thing spinning only one big difference.

This is got 50 feet about this route right on this okay now and all the sudden I guess.

And Wingard routers not met picked it up in the airlock new split and open-air best Beta scare those who thousand down to the bar joists in here come the superintendent and he looked at me heading down, getting down to getting down now tell me you found all that I did lose my job now and into the parasail though is very thin, Robbie.

How does God take your passion and use it to build the kingdom… This is this is the adventure kind of thing that God puts in every little boy okay you never met never met a man that didn't have adventure down in there somewhere and and John Eldridge would teach you that you know part of what's in every man. I is this battle to fight an adventure to live in a beauty rest and so sometimes it goes a little array but no doubt when you meet Mr. cornu realized it.

He's got little adventure in them so Alan here.

You are right you you got the Ricky corn in your men's group so I mean are you are you leveraging this ability to story tell in your times together yeah were really blessed to have Rick got we got a great bunch of guys there to join us for the boot camp, not in a couple months so he's one of seven that signed up for ready yet. He's a blessing God right now you see amusing salon camouflage the first time I ever laid eyes on Rick. He was in the back of the church where not Civil War hat and camouflage and I said all right I will meet him. So Alan you know I got to say that I I am really jealous that I don't live your 3 1/2 hours from here. I could attend this men's group is man these two guys are just, you know, if you want to go on a run adventure to Jamaica. I'm just saying you know you want to have Alan in corn with you because this this stuff. Good and Alan, you know you used to have a Harley and you know you yet sometimes to yeah Lord took me out of the lifestyle of the of recklessness. I'm blessed to be alive today and not have to have brothers in Christ, like I do.

Yeah yeah and so you know it's gonna need from my standpoint that you know that I think the church needs man. The man and if you were to meet Alan in corn. It would take you long to come to the conclusion you would want them on your side, and the Fox would you say that is accurate isn't that very act the same thing they wanted things you have seen is Abbott frozen custard, and unlike me, yes, and unlike Alan you've tasted out Abbott frozen custard. Recently I've I tasted it when I was a kid but you got this plan you will give us a taste test what what did you enjoy strawberry strawberry shortcake. You just sent me out and I just couldn't get a and you can hear the children out here you are excited here also there they lost their Bolivia. While there are no go. You know they can all other have you consider having a blast which is part of you know being out here the live event.

Abbott frozen custard as we got children and with balloons in a high wind can happen like a person yeah absolutely it absolutely could so Alan tell us how did you get hooked up with John Steigerwald in North Carolina boys can well I guess his mom used to go to a different church and we met her in a prayer group in intercessory group and we were praying for for that camp prior to the actually camp there was 100 counties in North Carolina.my wife and I represented Avery County because we were living in County driving up to go to a different church and naturally met Amy John's mom, and not so I got hooked up with John over at the Hickory boys Academy said awesome place.

If you have some time you want to go out and visit it. I'll call John and not check out the camp see God's moving and I watched the spirit and action yeah plus to have treetop adventures, rope courses and zip lines. I got talk about adventure with you is going on right to be back in and we got stuff to come by here in the van is much more joy in passionate about Abbott frozen custard today for live out here in Clemens right behind Addario if you happen to be in Winston-Salem, North Carolina area today. We would love to see we still have lots of stuff to give away and they're giving away balloons like crazy and we can see these children are really really enjoying more than that the people inside her and join these wonderful these things just like on a stick. That's where that's where I'm going. I'm telling you not I may have to have a soda and turtle. Can you imagine a black raspberry soda. Oh my goodness that's that's a legendary flavor. The black raspberry so that they've got that it's it's it's all going on. So I know a big part of the way that you know like I think that we connected and we are in Jamaica. Alan was in the whole idea of the father wounds and you may know that one of the reasons that a lot of people struggle with drug addictions or things along those lines of like the boys at the North Carolina boys Academy or like the guys there at the Jamaica teen challenge was in the area, father, and so is rear sit around and as you were saying Alan and that table that day you both you and Rick, you know, kind of went there and and and that's it really helpful place because we picture God right into a great extent how we were treated by our father and so far father was a harsh difficult man then you know this is this is part of what we are picturing God may be like and I mean is is I was listening to your own story which we shared that day. Alan you know I think you're able to help those other men to feel free to tell their story because you told your yes sometimes it's hard to really talk about stuff. But you want to get it out. You know you want to get out and you want to be always in a safe environment. Though so you don't want to just tell anybody what you want you want to be able to have a brother that you can confide in you know the Bible is clear again. James 516, you'll be accountable to each other you know I'm I'm blessed to have the church that we have in the men's group and just to be a part of it and to be able to to know that will make an impact in our community would each other on and get real like Rick would say realize, yeah, in again.

You know that stuff doubt that were get into the details on here. I'm just saying. The fact that it came out you could see the effect it had on these boys that obviously are struggling with her own father's different address is correct, I'd say that majority of them are lucky to be able to live in an environment that they're living in now because in our day and time is different and a lot rougher, but come a long way. Not bragging that come along ways with the help of the Lord in Nowak did God. Amen. And I love the vision you know after that whole experience in Jamaica. God kinda gave your vision on the road coming home of you know the cross and share little bit about that well yeah I share a little bit but the Lord revealed to me that Jesus Christ is the only only one it was. Went to the Valley is in the Valley fill the void.

The crash that because when they raised Jesus cross upon the cross. Once across the other all around arch room remote earth.

In other words, it sealed it all. That's why Jesus Christ said his father set through me Cecile Neil right so you know this while we have this experience we have, we obviously see God show up in so many different ways.

You know with these boys there in the orphanage there.

You know what that teen challenge farm and then he just working on the job and to see stuff like that that you have some on your way home or just woke your heart while just to know that were back in the United States was good but you know it. It usually it is a father issue that striving someone to rebel it. It's always a father issue. It was pointed out to me from a pastor. He said that when he has to. The disciples asked him, you know, teach us how to pray. He said our father because it's quite possible that they had father issues as well.

While I wonderful incident and so we need to tell you only have one minute left. You make today all day they got a special town going on is the grand opening of Abbott frozen custard.

It's in Clemens is right next to planet wondering who it was a dream that I think is it was saying. Wondering where so glad you got to hopefully your passion for custard is still make out here